• exohuman
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    1 year ago

    The only reason Y2K wasn’t worse was because a shit ton of people were hired to fix it before it happened. I remember folks literally coming to my high school in the late 90s and asking students to learn COBOL so we could help. There was a huge effort to stop it before it happened.

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      1 year ago

      This is such a frustrating concept that so many people don’t get. It was a huge issue, that’s why it got fixed before it could cause major damage.

      My dad thinks climate change is overblown because Y2K didn’t break the world.

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        1 year ago

        Ha! Thanks for that. I wasn’t one of the kids who took up the call.